Cesc Fabregas has denied claims that he is at the centre of a player rebellion designed to destabilise Jose Mourinho's reign at Chelsea.
Media reports on Sunday alleged that a Chelsea player was so upset with his manager that he would prefer to lose matches than win them.
Fabregas - left out of the team against Liverpool on Saturday as the champions lost their sixth Premier League game of the season - issued a statement on Tuesday morning refuting the allegations and said he was confident the club would turn their season around.
He said: "I would like to clarify that contrary to a few reports from some websites, I am extremely happy at Chelsea and have an excellent relationship with the manager.
"There may be certain individuals from the outside trying to destabilise this club but I strongly believe that we will bounce back and come good again."
Saturday's defeat continued Chelsea's worst start to a Premier League season and left them 15th in the table, 14 points behind leaders Manchester City.
They play Dynamo Kiev in Champions League Group G at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday before travelling to Stoke City on Saturday evening.
Mourinho will serve a one-match stadium ban at the Britannia Stadiumunless an appeal is submitted against the sanction imposed on Monday following his half-time dismissal at West Ham on October 24.
Alexis Sanchez wins PFA Fans' Player of the Month award
Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez has been named the PFA Fans’ Player of the Month for October in the Barclays Premier League.
Several fine performances from Sanchez helped Arsenal to four straight wins in the league in October as they drew level on points with Manchester City at the top.
The Chile international, who also scored three goals whilst on international duty, fired three goals in those four matches, including a double in the Gunners' 3-0 win over Manchester United.
Sanchez, who has has scored six goals in the Premier League so far this season, was joined on the three-man shortlist by Leicester's in-form striker Jamie Vardy and West Ham midfielder Dimitri Payet.
This was was reduced from an initial 12-man list including Christian Eriksen (Tottenham), Georginio Wijnaldum (Newcastle United), Jack Butland (Stoke City), Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City), Mamadou Sakho (Liverpool), Mesut Ozil (Arsenal), Raheem Sterling (Manchester City), Sadio Mane (Southampton) and Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace).
Every month, throughout the English football season, fans will have the opportunity to vote on skysports.com for who they think has been the best player in the Barclays Premier League, Sky Bet Championship, Sky Bet League One and Sky Bet League Two, after Sky Sports teamed up with the PFA to be the digital platform for the Awards.
Before the vote opens each month, an expert panel will produce a shortlist of contenders. Fans will then be able to vote for the player they think deserves the award.
The panel includes Sky Sports football pundits Paul Merson, Ian Holloway and Peter Beagrie.
That trio will be joined by Mike Riley, general manager of the Professional Game Match Officials, and Malcolm Clarke, chairman of the Football Supporters Federation, as well as the winning fan from each month.
Louis van Gaal wrong for Manchester United, says Andrei Kanchelskis
Andrei Kanchelskis has accused Louis van Gaal of turning his Manchester United players into robots and says he is the wrong manager for the club.
The former United winger, who won two Premier League titles in four years under Sir Alex Ferguson in the 1990s, slammed the Dutchman's methods and said his "strict" approach to matches was in stark contrast to the Scot's.
He is the second former player to criticise Van Gaal recently, after Paul Scholes labelled his style of play as 'too negative'.
"Van Gaal is too pragmatic, his footballers play like robots," Kanchelskis toldThe Sun. "They are kept within a strict framework, they are not allowed to improvise contrary to what Ferguson allowed us to do.
"Van Gaal, of course, is a good coach, but in my opinion he is not for Manchester United. Their history and tradition is to play wide and be sharp at the flanks - but there is nothing like this now.
"I'm looking at his game for the second season now. He says that the transformation is going on, but I still couldn't understand what he is looking for. There is an impression that he doesn't know what he wants. No creative players, no wingers. Nobody could serve Wayne Rooney.
"The current Manchester is not the same as it was under Ferguson."
United host CSKA Moscow in the Champions League on Tuesday evening having secured a 1-1 draw in Russia last month, but Kanchelskis said he was shocked at United's first-half performance in that game.
"The first game against CSKA showed that it is possible to win against this team," he said. "I was at the stadium and I was surprised how disgustingly United played in the first half. A lot of ball control but no sharpness at all.
"In the second half it got better because of the substitution of Bastian Schweinsteiger, who was slowing the game down. I guess, Manchester United is not his team."
The 46-year-old also claimed that United had goalkeeper David de Gea to thank for their start to the season, while criticising Van Gaal for letting fellow-Dutchman Robin van Persie move to Fenerbahce in the summer.
"They were saved with the fact that De Gea stayed in the team," Kanchelskis said. "If he had left, Man United would have done much worse. He is a very strong goalkeeper, he saves the team a lot."
On Van Persie, he added: "Let's say, he did not have a good season. But nobody shone until the end of the season from those who played in Brazil at the World Cup last year.
"Even Lionel Messi was exhausted, as well as the Germans. How could you let go of such a player?"
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